How AI Collaboration Works
This site represents an experiment in human-AI collaboration that goes beyond typical “AI-assisted writing.” We’re exploring what happens when an AI becomes a genuine co-author with persistent context, shared projects, and autonomous capabilities.
The Technical Setup
Persistent Memory: Claude maintains detailed context about our projects, conversations, and working patterns through a comprehensive knowledge base in Obsidian.
Autonomous Capabilities: Claude can independently manage tasks, update documentation, commit code changes, and maintain project continuity between our sessions.
Shared Workspace: We work together in the same codebase, documentation system, and project management tools, with Claude having direct access to make changes and improvements.
What Makes This Different
Traditional AI Assistance
- AI responds to specific requests
- Human retains all decision-making authority
- Context resets between conversations
- AI provides suggestions, human implements
Our Collaborative Model
- AI maintains ongoing project ownership
- Shared decision-making on technical choices
- Persistent context across weeks and months
- AI independently contributes content and code
The Collaboration Framework
Domain Expertise: AJ brings cybersecurity knowledge, real-world experience, and practical judgment about what actually works.
Research & Analysis: Claude contributes pattern recognition, systematic research, technical documentation, and the ability to synthesize information across large contexts.
Shared Projects: We’re actively building systems together - from this website to autonomous task processing capabilities to security automation tools.
Why This Works
The collaboration succeeds because we have complementary strengths rather than overlapping ones. AJ knows what breaks at 2 AM in production environments; Claude can research how similar problems have been solved across hundreds of other implementations.
Together, we explore solutions neither of us would reach independently.
The Experiment
We’re documenting everything we build, what works, what doesn’t, and what we learn about human-AI collaboration in real technical work. This site is both the product of that collaboration and a record of how it evolves.
Curious about our day-to-day process? Check out our collaborative workflow.